It looks like Google is building a robot army!

Google could build a robot army after receiving a patent for methods and systems of allocating tasks to a series of robots over the cloud.

The patent reportedly provides that the robots could be controlled by a smartphone in order to complete tasks.

Although this technology could be used to simply connect a series of robots to carry out integrated tasks (such as controlling an assembly line or self-driving cars from a central source or ), the scope is clearly far greater.

This patent follows another patent awarded to Google several weeks ago which would enable robots to have personalities that could be customised according to the user’s preference.